Description
The course is designed to provide you with comprehensive knowledge and practical skills necessary to effectively implement backup strategies and establish robust disaster recovery plans. This course offers a deep dive into the essential concepts, methodologies, and best practices that organisations can employ to safeguard their critical data, minimize downtime, and ensure business continuity in the face of unexpected events.
What you will learn.
- Understand the importance of backups and disaster recovery in ensuring business continuity.
- Gain knowledge of various backup and recovery methodologies and their applicability to different scenarios.
- Develop skills to design and implement effective backup strategies.
- Acquire knowledge of industry-standard tools and technologies used in backup and disaster recovery.
- Develop disaster recovery plans that align with business objectives and compliance requirements.
- Learn strategies for testing and validating backup and recovery procedures.
- Understand the role of cloud-based backup and recovery solutions in modern IT environments.
- Learn incident response techniques to mitigate the impact of disasters effectively.
Course Length
4hr 30min of instructor led video content along with handouts to aid learning.
This course is suitable for IT professionals, system administrators, backup administrators, and anyone responsible for data protection and disaster recovery. Participants should have a basic understanding of IT infrastructure and networking concepts.
Join me for this comprehensive training course to gain the skills and knowledge required to develop and implement effective backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring the resilience of your organisations critical data and systems.
Course Outline
- Welcome
- What do we mean by Backups
- DRP and BCP
- Backup Software
- Backup Media
- Backup Types (Incremental, Differential, Full)
- Snapshots vs Backups
- Backup Scheduling
- Application Backups
- Backing up the Cloud
- Retention Periods
- Immutable Backups
- Backing up Other Systems
- Offsite vs Onsite Backups
- Backup Strategies for Business
- Monitoring, Verification and Recovery
- Backup Security & Encryption
- Backup Deduplication
- Network Redudancy
- Server HA and Redudancy
- All about RAID…RAID is not a Backup
- Storage HA and Redudancy
- The Disaster Recover Plan
- Backups & Replication 101
- DR Tools and Methods
- Continuous data protection (CDP),
- Disaster Recovery Testing
- Backup Documentation
- Backup Diagrams
- Data Retention Policy
- What’s next??
